How courts could force big emitters to clean up their act

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ClientEarth's James Thornton says asking courts to issue rulings that force polluters to change their behaviour could be the way forward in the tricky arena of climate-related litigation

It's hard to fight a climate change case. First you need to convince the court to accept that human-caused climate change does indeed exist. Then you need to persuade it that this anthropogenic climate...

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